Ellen Stofan Quotes

In my mind, a good leader would say, 'OK, I need to sit down and talk to the guys who oppose me. Let me let them voice their opinions; let me get their thought process.'

Communication is important, and when you have an understanding with someone on the pitch, it is the most important thing.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

You tend to relate to the other person better if you understand their professional needs.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I believe you can work with anybody.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

I love working closely with people.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'